Create A Booklet From Any PDF Document

Posted in Cool Tools by Rob on the February 29th, 2008

BookletCreator - is a free online tool that allows to create a booklet from a PDF document. It reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages you get a small book. Here is how it goes:

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Keeping Students Motivated With Artificial Agents

Posted in Distance Education, E-Learning, Future Watch, Higher Education, K-12 Education by Rob on the February 28th, 2008

The objective of the AtGentive project is to investigate the use of artificial agents for supporting the management of the attention of young or adult learners in the context of individual and collaborative learning environments.

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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Initiative

Posted in E-Learning, Hardware, K-12 Education by Rob on the February 27th, 2008

In November 2007 Mass Production of the XO laptop begins.  In December, children in developing countries begin receiving and learning with their new laptops. Follow the progress of this program and/or help their cause.

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Google Brain Implant

Posted in Future Watch by Rob on the February 26th, 2008

In John Varley’s upcoming sci-fi novel Rolling Thunder, everyone has a brain implant that lets them Google information constantly. And many futurists are saying this technology will become a reality long before we colonize Mars. The question isn’t whether we’ll have Google brain implants (or the futuristic search engine equivalent), but how we’ll handle them.

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Flash Cards go 2.0

Posted in E-Learning, K-12 Education, Web 2.0 by Rob on the February 25th, 2008

A new site launched in beta Thursday that combines educational resources with social media. The site, Flashcard Friends, uses Web 2.0 technologies to allow students (and teachers) to create skill practice materials (i.e. electronic flashcards) and share them with other users.

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Open CourseWare Consortium

Posted in Distance Education, E-Learning, Open source by Rob on the February 24th, 2008

OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

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An Intro into the Semantic Web

Posted in Web 3.0 by Rob on the February 23rd, 2008

What is this new medium all about? The following link offers a few videos to help clear the 3.0 fog. What is the semantic web all about? What will it offer?

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Yahoo! Teachers!

Posted in E-Learning, Web 2.0 by Rob on the February 22nd, 2008

Teachers: Are you ready to collaborate and share curriculum and ideas globally? Yahoo! is creating a social networking site for teachers.  Yahoo! Teachers will be free for all teachers, administrators, and education specialists.

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Publish yourself with Scribd

Posted in E-Learning, Web 2.0 by Rob on the February 21st, 2008

Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. You can think of Scribd as a big online library where everyone can publish original content, including you!

Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web.

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Second Life going Mobile

Posted in E-Learning, Web 2.0 by Rob on the February 20th, 2008

Now you can take your virtual world out into the real world.  Streaming mobile games service provider Vollee will connect 3G phone handsets users to the 3D virtual world platform Second Life. Vollee’s Second Life mobile service will enable access to the virtual world of Second Life for Residents to explore, interact and communicate on-line.

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